Improvement in wash-tubs



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IMPROVEMENT lN WASH-TUBS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 117,154, dated July 18, 1871.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AMERosE M. @Usi-inver, of Cambridge, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Vash-Tubs; and I do hereby decla-re that the following, taken in connection With the drawing which accompanies and forms part of this sp ecicaton, is a description of my invention, suficient to enable those skilled in the art to practice it. k

My invention relates to the con struction oi' soap-stone tubs for laundry purposes, and con sists in the application thereto of a rubbin g-board or plate, preferably also formed of soap-stone, and being so arranged or applied to the front of the tub that there is an open water-space in rear 'of it or between it and the front wall ofthe tub.

The drawing represents a series of tubs embodying the invention. A shows a plan of the same. B is a vertical section on the line m a C, a similar section on the line y y D, a similar section on the line z z.

a denotes an ordinary soap-stone laundrytub made with a series of compartments, b o d, each having a bottom plate, e, a vertical rear wall, f, and a front inclined wall or side, g. Instead of employing an ordinary loose rubbingboard I place nea-r each front wall a wash-board or plate, h, preferably formed of soapstone, and having a corrugated front surface, said rubbingstone or plate having provision for confining it in position, so that there is a space, z', between the front wall and the rubbing-board, the top of the board beingbelow the top ofthe tub, and the water and suds thrown upon. the board flowing over the top and down through the Water-space back into the tub. rI he rubbin g-board may be permanently confined in position, as seen at D, its opposite ends being let into recesses in the end -plates of the tub; or may slide down into grooves k, as seen at B or may be made adjustable as to position, its bottom resting in the teeth of rack-bars l l, as seen at C, its top resting against corner stops m at the inner side of the iront place.

By this improvement the labor of Washing is much lessened, and the wash-board is always maintained in a desirable position. Moreover, a Wash-board made of soap-stone and applied as set forth is very enduring, is free from joints,

sharp angles, and nails, and is easy to the hands, I

being in all these respects greatly superior to all common wood wash-boards.

I claim- A soap-stone wash-tub made with a Wash-board or plate located in its front part, said wash-board being maintained in proper position by suitable stops or fastening-s, and h. ving a water-space, i, in rear of it, all substantially as shown and described.

Executed this 23d day of June, A. D. 1871. A. M. OUSHING. Witnesses:

FRANors GoULD, M. W. FROTHINGHAM. 

